2025 UND football

[gfhockey]

7 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

The women's soccer coach with some funny quotes in the paper about the administration. 

To his credit he correctly describes the current state of affairs in the UND athletics department with Mr. Chaves in charge of things.  What program right now is thriving?  

Be interesting to see

[F'n Hawks]

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1248-hawk-talk-100915705/episode/bill-chaves-pod-ep-164-242031913/
 

39 minutes in starts talking about football. He’s frustrated, but won’t do anything about it seems

[sioux24/7]

6 minutes ago, F'n Hawks said:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1248-hawk-talk-100915705/episode/bill-chaves-pod-ep-164-242031913/
 

39 minutes in starts talking about football. He’s frustrated, but won’t do anything about it seems

Bill Chaves 

[gfhockey]

He’s gunna roll his sleeves up and get work

 

whats he been doing the past years with all sports wtf

[UND-FB-FAN]

7 hours ago, F'n Hawks said:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1248-hawk-talk-100915705/episode/bill-chaves-pod-ep-164-242031913/
 

39 minutes in starts talking about football. He’s frustrated, but won’t do anything about it seems

Jeez. Listening to that crap ruined my evening.

”we’re disappointed”

”we want to be a top 16-24 seed”

”a play or two here or there and it would have been a different season”

”in FCS football things can turn around quickly”

”the new facilities will be game-changers”

I’ve heard all the above for years and yet there’s no postseason success or high level success against top competition. It all comes at home vs average to poor teams. And I understand this UND-friendly and UND-produced podcast would never address coaching directly, but how can you not acknowledge the importance of coaching in recruiting, development, game planning and in-game decision making? It’s literally the one constant within UND football’s mediocrity. Given the budget, and the field of FCS teams, UND should be a top 10 team every season competing for championships, not a just a playoff berth. The body of results has been significantly underwhelming, and staffing matters, and to discount or not acknowledge the importance of coaching is ridiculous. 

[HoopsFan03]

10 minutes ago, UND-FB-FAN said:

Jeez. Listening to that crap ruined my evening.

 

”we want to be a top 16-24 seed”

”a play or two here or there and it would have been a different season”

These two are actual, legitimate quotes from it????

Wow.

[UND1983]

Idaho State fired their DC.  Yes, the Bengals (not Cincinnati)

[UND1983]

Southern Illinois fired their DC after having one bad year.  They were very good in 2023

[gfhockey]

I admire his loyalty, but how does a special teams coach stay special teams coach at one FCS University for 12 years?

[The Sicatoka]

2025 is year two of Isaac Fruechte. He ain't "new guy"; honeymoon is over. A full off-season to install his offense. A good to great showing will set him up for more.

[forksandspoons]

54 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

2025 is year two of Isaac Fruechte. He ain't "new guy"; honeymoon is over. A full off-season to install his offense. A good to great showing will set him up for more.

Won’t want the offense to score too quick, though, because that means the vaunted 3-4 defense trots back out. 

[iramurphy]

15 hours ago, gfhockey said:

I admire his loyalty, but how does a special teams coach stay special teams coach at one FCS University for 12 years?

They usually aren’t a hot commodity at this level. The hope is that they get moved up within the staff they are on which provides the opportunities for upward mobility. If the HC moves to the FBS level they hope to go along for increased exposure to other jobs or even a promotion. 
Kostich is liked by the players, the other coaches and reportedly is a good recruiter. 

[The Sicatoka]

105 man FBS roster limit is going to flood the portal. 

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/historic-college-football-program-expecting-up-to-50-players-to-transfer-amid-ncaa-rule-change 

[Hawkster]

So FBS is limited to 85 schollies and I've been under the impression they can't do partials like FCS, so the rest of the players were all getting nothing except maybe some NIL money?

[The Sicatoka]

3 minutes ago, Hawkster said:

So FBS is limited to 85 schollies and I've been under the impression they can't do partials like FCS, so the rest of the players were all getting nothing except maybe some NIL money?

With the 105 cap comes -> everyone is scholarship eligible.

[geaux_sioux]

11 minutes ago, Hawkster said:

So FBS is limited to 85 schollies and I've been under the impression they can't do partials like FCS, so the rest of the players were all getting nothing except maybe some NIL money?

I am confident that the big boys had a little something for the non scholly guys even pre NIL. It’ll be actually on the table now I guess.

[MinnDak]

There is a few streams of $ for athletes just like at UND. The big programs are really good at using all.  I think it’s been mentioned but “non scholarship” programs can pay for everything and then some. Academics alone pays a lot. 

[tnt]

1 hour ago, The Sicatoka said:

105 man FBS roster limit is going to flood the portal. 

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/historic-college-football-program-expecting-up-to-50-players-to-transfer-amid-ncaa-rule-change 

How many people think that Bubba will be proactive taking advantage of these changes?   My bet is that every other college will be on top of this change, and that Bubba will start reacting after all the programs are taking advantage of it, that is if he can do it between naps. 

[The Sicatoka]

My hope is Fruechte is paying attention. 

[GoodGood]

How much money is the 150th guy on Nebraska roster getting? 

[HoopsFan03]

3 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

My hope is Fruechte is paying attention. 

So we’re at the point that we are hoping that our OC is basically acting as our HC? Sounds like a great spot for a program to be in 

[Frozen4sioux]

”we want to be a top 16-24 seed”

 

wait was this a quote from Chaves?

Hoping for the mediocre?????   

[The Sicatoka]

9 minutes ago, HoopsFan03 said:

So we’re at the point that we are hoping that our OC is basically acting as our HC? Sounds like a great spot for a program to be in 

Fruechte is young and needs to be thinking 'career' wherever that may go. 

[SiouxHawkGuy]

28 minutes ago, Frozen4sioux said:

”we want to be a top 16-24 seed”

 

wait was this a quote from Chaves?

Hoping for the mediocre?????   

Same mentality at the other Dakota schools? Any of those schools keep the head coach around after losing 5 games in a row?

[jdub27]

1 hour ago, SiouxHawkGuy said:

Same mentality at the other Dakota schools? Any of those schools keep the head coach around after losing 5 games in a row?

Take the info however you want but:
Nielsen obviously turned it around the last 2 years, but previously, he has had a 4 game losing streak (to end a season), 5 of 6 to end a season, two 3 game losing streaks in one season, lost 3 in a row to end the covid season before finishing 1-3 and then went 3-8 before having very solid showings the last 2 years.

Stig's first 10-15 or so seasons at SDSU wer very average (and looks very familiar). Expectations were likely different for SDSU at the time during D2, transition and early D1 days.